You Xu
Jolley Hall *** o ce: 314-***-****
Department of Computer Science and Engineering mobile: 314-***-****
Information
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri e-mail: abqq2u@r.postjobfree.com
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis 2009 present
Education
Research topic: Accelerating AI Planning using Cloud Computing
M.S. in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis 2006 2009
Research topic: Partial Order Reduction for AI Planning
B.S. in Mathematics (magna cum laude ), Nanjing University 2002 2006
Co-Founder of LegIT Labs, LC 2009 present
Professional
Experience Responsible for developing a web-based case management system for law rms using Python,
Django,and Google Web Toolkit
Founder of Washington University Linux User Group 2008 present
Responsible for organizing meetings and giving presentations on Linux and related topics
Software Development Intern at Siemens Nanjing, China 2006
Responsible for developing a front-end interface in JavaServer Faces (JSF) for an internal
project
Software Development Intern at Yangzhou Hengxin Meter, Ltd., China 2004 2005
Responsible for developing a Java-based system for managing IC cards and hot water meters
and writing a communication protocol for meters
kegg-dfba http://code.google.com/p/kegg-dfba
Opensource
Projects
A dynamic ux balance analysis system based on nonlinear optimization
First toolkit for biology researchers to analyze uxes for species in the KEGG database
Is built using Django, Google Web Toolkit, AMPL, and Linux shell scripts
pyipopt http://code.google.com/p/pyipopt/
A Python module for interfacing with Ipopt, a state-of-the-art nonlinear optimization solver
Is now used in other opensource projects like OpenOpt, and is included in some Linux distri-
butions such as ALT Linux
Is built in C and Python using Python C API
Co-Inventor of China Patent CN200986495, CN1959748, CN2879149
Awards and
(http://ip.com/CN200986495, http://ip.com/CN1959748, http://ip.com/CN2879149)
Patents
on Hot Water Meters Using IC Cards.
Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (top 0.1%), Nanjing University, 2006
Expert in Python, C, C++, Java, Linux shell scripting, AMPL, and L TEX. Also familiar with Django,
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Programming
Google Web Toolkit, .NET, and Windows Azure.
Skills
Abu Saifullah, You Xu, Chenyang Lu, and Yixin Chen, Real-Time Scheduling for WirelessHART
List of
Networks, Proc. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS-10), 2010.
Publications
You Xu, Abu Saifullah, Yixin Chen, Chenyang Lu, and Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Near Optimal Multi-
Application Allocation in Shared Sensor Networks, Proc. ACM International Symposium on Mobile
Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc-10), 2010
Xueyang Feng, You Xu, Yixin Chen, Yinjie Tang. Flux Balance Analysis of Dynamic and Progressive
Carbon Metabolism in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, Poster, ASM General Conf 110, 2010.
Guobin Zou, Yixin Chen, Yang Xiang, Ruoyun Huang, and You Xu, AI Planning and Combinatorial
Optimization for Web Service Composition in Cloud Computing, Proc. International Conference on
Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV-10), 2010
Yixin Chen, You Xu, and Guohui Yao: Strati ed Planning, Proc. International Joint Conference on
Arti cial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 2009.
You Xu and Yixin Chen: A Framework for Parallel Nonlinear Optimization by Partitioning Localized
Constraints, Proc. International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming
(PAAP-08), 2008.
Stephen Wu, Forrest Bao, You Xu, Yuxuan Wang, Yi-Fan Chang and Qiao-Liang Xiang: A Leaf
Recognition Algorithm for Plant Classi cation Using Probabilistic Neural Network CoRR abs/0707.4289,
2007.
You Xu: A gradient based ELM algorithm in regressing multi-variable functions, Proc. International
Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN-06), 2006.
You Xu and Yang Shu: A PSO-ELM algorithm and its application in prediction problem, Proc.
International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN-06), 2006.
Abusayeed Saifullah, You Xu, Chenyang Lu, and Yixin Chen: End-to-End Delay Bounds for Fixed
Priority Scheduling in WirelessHART Networks, Washington University Technical Report, WUCSE-
2010-33, 2010.
Qiang Lu, You Xu, Ruoyun Huang, and Yixin Chen: Cloud Computing for Scalable Planning by
Stochastic Search, Washington University Technical Report, WUCSE-2010-29, 2010.
You Xu and Yixin Chen: Augmented Lagrangian Algorithms under Constraint Partitioning, Wash-
ington University Technical Report, WUCSE-2009-31, 2009.
You Xu and Yixin Chen: Partial Order Based Reduction in Planning: A Unifying Theory and New
Algorithms, Washington University Technical Report, WUCSE-2009-28, 2009.
You Xu, Yixin Chen, Chenyang Lu, Sangeeta Bhattacharya, and Abu Saifullah: Submodular utility
optimization in sensor networks for capacity constraints, Washington University Technical Report,
WUCSE-2009-3, 2009.